Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
The so-called Arab Spring has proved that the fall of a Mubarak-like presidency does not mean the immediate rise of democracy. In spite of this, I am confident that Egypt will not return to an authoritarian governing system again, and that, with some time, it will achieve its democratic goals.
I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself.
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
Democracy passes into despotism.
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.
In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
